For all your commercial chili seed sourcing needs

[j.t.delaney]

Hey there,

I fouind this resource this evening, and I thought folks around here would find it useful:

the plant info database

Its a plant source database for about 70,000 different varieties of commercially available plants from North American nurseries.

If you search using the scientific name 'Capsicum', you get almost 1300 different varieties, along with links to the catalogs that offer them. The other cool thing is seeing which catalogs are listed; there are a lot of familiar names, and a few smaller gems I've never heard of. There seem to be a few quirks, but after a few searches, they're easy to sort through.

Enjoy!

 

[RedtailForester]

Thanks for sharing. I played a little bit with this and it appears the functionality is a little limited. For example, I typed in "Trinidad Scorpion" under the common name and it resulted in zero hits. Still a good one!

 

[j.t.delaney]

Thanks for sharing. I played a little bit with this and it appears the functionality is a little limited. For example, I typed in "Trinidad Scorpion" under the common name and it resulted in zero hits. Still a good one!

See? Those are the quirks. If you type "trinidad scorpion" under scientific name, you will get two retail shipping sources (Chile Woman and Cross Country Nurseries), and one wholesale source (Sunny Border Nurseries).

Likewise, if you type "habanero" under scientific, you'll get a ton of results. Like I said, it takes some playing around with.